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I suspect the engineers at traditional automakers HATE electric vehicles and this is likely causing massive delays. The vast vast majority of those engineers an
by deelowe 2y ago
I suspect the engineers at traditional automakers HATE electric vehicles and this is likely causing massive delays. The vast vast majority of those engineers and other technical folks have careers which are are utterly dependent on ICE development and support.
This sort of transformative shift rarely happens from within. At least not easily.
- bux93 2y agoProbably not the engineers, but the suits. Switching over from ICE is an enormous business problem because it's not just about manufacturing, but the whole after market ecosystem. EVs require less maintenance, but dealerships make most of their money on replacement parts. Getting rid of some uppity ICE engineers (in so far as they're not retiring) is the least of your problems as an ICE automaker.
- jansan 2y agoAs an engineer who used to work in the car industry I do not think the engineers hate electric cars. Also, they are not the ones making the decisions. Volkswagen basically bet the farm on electric vehicles. They were late to the party, but went all in, so you cannot blame them for trying to block EVs. I rather suspect that making cheap EVs is just extremely difficult if you intend to make a profit. I bet they lost a good sum of money on every eUp! they produced (here in Germany you could get them for 15,000€ at the right time, which is a steal), so they decided to quit producing it, which IMO is a real shame, because it is such a cool car for inner city commuting.